Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march
www.theguardian.com
Stephen Gingell, 57, thought to be first to receive prison sentence under new Public Order Act
  • endhits@lemmy.worldEnglish
    112·
    2 years ago

    Civil disobedience is what the history books say is the thing to do. Not what reality says is the thing to do.

    • qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.eeEnglish
      82·
      2 years ago

      Agreed. See Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.